Improvement in tying brooms and brushes



area sala @Hiatt (pffm* j JAMES H. ANDERSON, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, ,ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS MAR'STON;4

` JR., lWALTER L. PECK, AND CLARENCE I. PECK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.-

Letters Patent No.-113,000, dated March 21, 1871 antedated February 14,'1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN TYING BROOMS AND BRUSHES.l

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and part of the same.

To all whom tt may concern.-

Beit known that I, JAMEs H. ANDERSON, of the town of Terre Haute, Vigo county, and State of' Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Tying of Brooms, Brushes, or Whisks; and I do `hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This inventionv is an improvement upon my invention contained in Letters Patent granted to me August 2,1870, and consists ina new method for arranging and securing down the metallic braces, described, by pressure or percussion, so as to thoroughly fasten the cross-wires binding the corn to the handle, and thus'rendering them immovable. p

In order to enable Yothers skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe theconstruction and operation of my improvement, referring to the annexed drawing, in whichi Figures 1 and 2 represent a side view of a broomhandle with my metallic braces attached..

A represents a portion of the handle, around which the broom-straw B is laid in the usual manner.

On the outside of the straw are placed, in a position l(in one form of my invention)l lengthwise with the broom-handle, at about equal distances apart, two, three, four, or more spirally-formed wires, a, a, (the same being also shown in my said former patent; or any equivalent metallic braces with upright projections may be used, the said spiral wires or projections being secured down by pressure or percussion to such an angle to the plane of the broom-handle as to receive and hold smoothly the cross or transverse wires passing around the straw and handle,v so as to fasten thoroughly the said cross-Wires and bind the corn to the handle.

b b b b are cross-wires, with which brooms are usually bound.

These cross-wires are wound around the straw'in such a manner that such crosswires shall come suc-y cessively between the loops or projections in the metallic braces a a, which latter, being secured down by pressure or percussion to a proper position, as before described, will. furnish a further preventive to the slipping of vsaidcross-wires, and a valuable aid to keep"- them in place.

Corrugated strips of sheet metal have been used as braces for the same purpose, as 'statedj in my forr'ner patent.

The binding-wire is always more or less liable to -slip over such corrugations, and', as I have found, will sometimes show'a tendency to slip even over the spiral wire- .loops, described in my said patent, standing straight,

produced byshrinkageorv seasoning, and to furnish a remedy for this tendency is the object of this improvement.

In order to facilitate this operation and render the binding more perfectly secure, and stronger, instead -oi' placing the said wire or metallic braces a a, above vmetallic braces, with projections secured down by pressure or percussion to such an angle to the plane ofthe broom-handle as to 'thoroughly fasten the cross-wires binding 'the corn or other material to the handle.

2.4 The arranging the said wire, or lother metallic braces with projections, so secured down by pressure orpercussion, as described, upon the corn, or other material, on the handle in a winding 01 cork-screw form, substantially as set forth.

3. 'Ihe broom, brush, or whisk, herein described; with two ory more wire or metallic braces, with projections secured down by pressure or percussion to such an angle to the plane of thehandle as to fasten the cross-wires bindingthe corn or other material, whether said braces are applied vertically or in a winding or cork-screw form, as an article of manufacture.

Witnesses: JAMES H. ANDERSON.

JAMES D. Fox, WM. SHEPARDsoN. 

